Infrastructure and cloud specialist

Job Description

Infrastructure and cloud specialist

This global company’s cloud adoption journey across the various business areas is growing and a number of live services now operate across a variety of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. This is only the start of their cloud transformation journey. The purpose of this role is to support and influence the various business units who are based across EMEA and potentially wider by working with local in country IT teams, partners and suppliers, providing technical recommendations on solutions, designs and implementation.

The role may also provide technical hands on support for the current infrastructure at HQ in Surrey.

The main focus and responsibility for this role will be working as part of the Digital and IT team, assisting business units in various activities such as running workshops, demonstrating new technologies, making technical recommendations on proposals and solutions, assisting with security and governance tasks whilst applying and sharing best practices. The role will support business units with the cloud adoption journey by working and collaborating with IT teams, partners and suppliers to inspire and influence and ultimately support these business units transition from legacy systems into the Cloud by assisting with design solutions that provides agility, flexibility, performance and reliability all with the appropriate level of security.

The role may also from time to time support the Infrastructure team in Surrey. This may include being the key point of escalation for core systems and applications and collaborating with support partners. The role may also call upon supporting the development team resolving issues in production, test, & development environments and monitoring.

The company’s infrastructure and services operate on a hybrid of on premise and cloud technologies. Knowledge and experience in setting up, configuring and maintaining networks, servers, switches, firewalls, storage & Virtualization platforms are essential for this role. Firsthand experience and knowledge across Cloud technologies such as AWS & Azure is important.

This is a new role and is a fantastic opportunity for a team player who has a great attitude, who is a confident communicator and keen to learn continuously to make this role their own.